Dynamic Clothing How To
Greybro
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I'm working with the Angelic Dynamic Robes and am looking to drape them on figures in various poses. I've had success in the past so long as the figure was close to a T shape but that wont work in this particular case. Is anyone aware of a good overview tutorial on how to accomplish this on a posed M4 or V4?
I am using the latest version of Poser.
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Some clothes, especially those which drape a long way from the body (or any clothes being used on a figure they weren't made for) require an animated drape. Set the figure in the default pose, or at least so that it fits inside the clothes, in frame 0 then use the Timeline to go to frame 30 and apply the final pose. Go back to frame 0 and in the dynamic clothing pane set the drape type to animated, then click the Drape button.
Going to try this right now. Thanks for such a straight forward description!
Oops, sorry - I didn't realise you were using Poser. Bad Richard .
In Poser the technique is the same, but there's no Dynamic Clothing pane and all clothes have to use animated drapes (though you can often drape conforming clothing too, with the aid of the grouping tool).
http://www.nerd3d.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=4 This is quite an easy tutorial to follow
Richard Haseltine, you're a LEGEND, Mate!
Actually, your original steps got me close enough to figure it out. As a follow up, can you tell me if the "Dynamic Clothing Control" product is required to conform clothing in DS?
Actually, your original steps got me close enough to figure it out. As a follow up, can you tell me if the "Dynamic Clothing Control" product is required to conform clothing in DS?
No, the control plug-in adds the ability to adjust the properties of individual panels (without it you are limited to the settings on the clothes and any presets you may have), a wind-force widget to add wind effects, and I think the ability to vary gravity. But draping is the same in both the free and the paid for plug-in. Remember, though, that in DS only the OptiTex clothing can be draped - it isn't a general purpose engine like the one in Poser
Is there a way to save the draped/clothed character for inserting into another scene where the animation and simulation doesn't go with it?
I'm finding that animated drape (in Daz) is also a good idea for weird proportions, like heavy characters -- the cloth often clips too much to easily drape if there's a big belly or breasts.
No, the control plug-in adds the ability to adjust the properties of individual panels (without it you are limited to the settings on the clothes and any presets you may have), a wind-force widget to add wind effects, and I think the ability to vary gravity. But draping is the same in both the free and the paid for plug-in. Remember, though, that in DS only the OptiTex clothing can be draped - it isn't a general purpose engine like the one in Poser
Pretty stiff price for a plugin to make a single piece of clothing work better.
If there isn't a workable way to save the figure with dynamic clothing drapes in Poser, I'm going to run out of memory long before I am able to get enough dynamic animations in this scene. I was able to get an exported 3ds file out and back in, but the texture mapping was lost. Cannot make an exported obj work at all for some reason.
You can spawn a morph, if you just want to keep one shape - it's the usual command, Object>Spawn Morph Target.
Is that just to make a morph that will make the garment prop assumed the draped shape?
Yes, that's right.